Best Dessert I Ate Over the Holidays: The soft-serve ice cream with huckleberry ice at Chicago's BellyQ. THAT SHIT APPEARS IN MY DREAMS. -- Abby Schreiber

Best Thing My 90-Year-Old Grandfather Said to Me While I Was Home Visiting: "I need you to find out if that's really the T-Mobile Girl riding the motorcycle in those commercials." -- Elizabeth Thompson

Sweetest Tribute to Someone We Lost in 2012: The Maurice Sendak tribute by Christoph Neimann in The New York Times Magazine's "Lives They Lived" issue. -- E.T.

Sweetest Tribute to Someone Paper Lost in 2012:Jonathan Ames' remembrance of New York performance art legend and Paper theater critic Tom Murrin, who passed away in March. This was published in our summer issue but I re-read this piece when I was helping put together our Best Quotes of the Year roundup, and it's just really, really lovely. -- E.T.